Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Don't lose today …for today is guaranteed but tomorrow is not.

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.